McCourt School faculty explore how presidential campaigns compete for attention in a changing media landscape.

Our model gives them a record chance of claiming both the House of Representatives and the Senate

Last month, the Census Bureau published a strange little document claiming that “over 24,000” votes were cast by noncitizens in the 2020 US general election. The anonymous report has come under fire for its provenance and methods: It was reportedly produced outside of regular Census Bureau channels by political appointees and staffers at a think tank with close ties to President Donald Trump, using an approach that, according to one former high-level bureau official, was likely to turn up far mo

The president's latest tirade against recalcitrant justices reflects his open contempt for judicial review.

A roundup of items on voting and elections, focusing on scenarios that could disrupt the midterm elections.

Democrats just closed out a formidable special election season with an astonishing flip

Bill Siroty, a New Hampshire political activist who died Sunday at 75, was one of the original political bloggers. I profiled him for The Boston Phoenix in November 2003 to find out how he’d …

New Hampshire’s political elites quickly pointed fingers after a Democratic National Committee panel voted Friday to strip the Granite State of its first-in-the-nation status on the presidential nomin...

An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party—not despite this harm, but becaus...

His more than 2,500 covers cleverly captured, mocked and ridiculed the world

Let’s hope that wrong-residence voting someday receives the attention it merits as an election integrity problem.

As America turns 250, our Economist/YouGov poll reveals a proud but deeply divided nation

Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

The president has fought to make sure alleged victims of government misconduct cannot get compensation. What changed?

ALT: Jim Halpert's Confused Side Eye

President Donald Trump appears to be more unpopular than he’s ever been. In fact, his 35% average approval rating in the CNN Poll of Polls means he’s now flirting with George W. Bush territory. Bush i...

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the scope and scale of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision of the law responsible for the creation of majority-minority...

Vice Presidents are always underrated, but Vance's challenges may go beyond that.

It is the responsibility of senators to rigorously scrutinize the next attorney general nominee, ensuring they confirm someone who possesses no history of prosecutorial misconduct and who pledges to p...